Medicine: Death Follows Art

There were no obvious cluesno telltale marks on the body. Yet the
deaths occurred so quickly and unexpectedly that the staff realized
that they could not have been accidental. A killer was on the loose in
the hospital, someone intimately familiar with all of modern medicine's
lethal drugs and tools. It was a psychopathic physician whose mind had
twisted from healing to homicide.

This macabre fantasy, conceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky for the
1971 black humor film The Hospital, has been overshadowed by reality.
Last week investigators were virtually convinced that many of the two
dozen puzzling deaths at the Veterans Administration...